These will be Lada class subs... they will be very very capable boats.

The Russian models will have nuclear class quality sonar, and the AIP, which I suspect China will cooperate in the development of will give it the endurance of a SSN, though it will lack an SSNs top speed of course.

This will be very important for China and might make things very very difficult for Japan and the US and Taiwan.

_________________“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti) - Foreign customers have shown high interest in Russia’s advanced Amur-1650 class submarine, state-run arms dealer Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.“Of the nine countries that are planning to modernize or develop their submarine fleets…three have already chosen the Amur-1650 project,” Rosoboronexport’s director Anatoly Isaikin said.He did not name the countries in question.The ongoing work on air-independent (closed cycle) propulsion systems for the submarine should further fuel the customers’ interest, he added.The Amur 1650 is one of several participants in a tender by the Indian Navy for six submarines with a total value of $11.8 billion. The Amur 1650 is up against the Scorpene (France), Type 214 (Germany) and S-80 (Spain), among others.The Amur has an armament of multirole torpedoes and anti-ship missiles, and can also effectively engage land targets with advanced cruise missiles, which may include the Indian-Russian Brahmos.The Amur 1650 has the ability to remain submerged for over 25 days using its air-independent propulsion, five to 10 days longer than similar-class foreign boats.Air-independent submarines, which usually use hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells, are quieter than conventional diesel-electric boats and do not have to surface or use snorkel tubes to breathe air, thereby exposing themselves to detection by radar and other sensors.

There are 2011-2012 versions. I've just gotten a PDF of the Air Defence Weapons catalog, but haven't found any of the others yet. Really nicely done compared to the older ones. 520 pages, 26 MB, and done in both English and Russian side-by-side.

SOC wrote:There are 2011-2012 versions. I've just gotten a PDF of the Air Defence Weapons catalog, but haven't found any of the others yet. Really nicely done compared to the older ones. 520 pages, 26 MB, and done in both English and Russian side-by-side.

Russia’s state arms exporter said Wednesday that its order portfolio stood at $34 billion as of June 1. Rosoboronexport delivered $6.5 billion worth of weaponry to foreign customers in the first half of this year, deputy head Igor Sevastyanov announced, adding that the current order portfolio included contracts with 67 countries. Russian news agency Novosti reports.

Russia, which last year sold $15.2 billion worth of weaponry, is the world’s No. 2 arms exporter, behind the United States. Russia’s main arms customers are India, Algeria, China, Venezuela, Malaysia and Syria. Vietnam also emerged as a significant purchaser in 2010, when it signed a deal to buy submarines, aircraft and other military hardware.

Sevastyanov added that his company was in talks regarding contracts worth a total of more than $80 billion. But it was not immediately clear in what time frame those contracts could be concluded.

The bureau conducted intensive marketing research in the previous years and even prepared a contract with a foreign customer, but it was never signed for political reasons, he said.

“Then we stopped advancing the Iskander to foreign markets after we had been awarded a long-term contract from the Defence Ministry to supply the system to the Russian army, and we had to increase our output four to five times to fulfill the obligations,” Kashin said.

Foreign customers were advised not to file any requests for purchase until 2015. “Now that we have reached the required level of production to fulfill the contract with the Defence Ministry, we and Rosoboronexport have resumed our efforts to advance the system to foreign markets. And we have already received some requests,” he said.

I'd be interested to know, just whom they'd be exporting it to...I know it's never going to happen, but it would be a laugh if they started negotiating with Iran...

The bureau conducted intensive marketing research in the previous years and even prepared a contract with a foreign customer, but it was never signed for political reasons, he said.

“Then we stopped advancing the Iskander to foreign markets after we had been awarded a long-term contract from the Defence Ministry to supply the system to the Russian army, and we had to increase our output four to five times to fulfill the obligations,” Kashin said.

Foreign customers were advised not to file any requests for purchase until 2015. “Now that we have reached the required level of production to fulfill the contract with the Defence Ministry, we and Rosoboronexport have resumed our efforts to advance the system to foreign markets. And we have already received some requests,” he said.

I'd be interested to know, just whom they'd be exporting it to...I know it's never going to happen, but it would be a laugh if they started negotiating with Iran...

What's not going to happen?

Let me ask you a question - 'Iskandar' is a version of the name 'Alexander' - in which language?

I figure this is the best place to put this information as it is about Rosoboronexport and it is sticky so it will remain visible.

I will just post the article rather than try to explain as the article says it all:

23.12.2013Rosoboronexport has adapted “Russia’s MTC” to iOS

The English version of “Russia’s MTC,” a book published by Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec State Corporation), will be available for downloading on iPhone, iPod and iPad mobile devices via iTunes app since January 1, 2014. It has been called “Russian Arms.”

Over the past three years “Russia’s MTC” has been published twice. The first edition, which incorporated the entire history of military-technical cooperation (MTC) between Russia and foreign countries for more than a 100-year period, was released in the paper version in 2010 to mark the occasion of Rosoboronexport’s 10th anniversary.

The second enlarged edition was released in 2013 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the domestic MTC system. The decision to adapt the English version of the publication to mobile devices running on the iOS platform was made to make the book more accessible to foreign experts who are interested in the history of Russia's MTC.

The book contains links to many monographs and unique archival documents published for the first time. This edition is encyclopedic in nature and is of a great historical value.

As its title suggests, “Russian Arms” focuses on the achievements of the national defense industry enabling Russia to rank among the global arms market leaders.

The authors are looking into the possibility of adapting the book to Android, which will significantly expand its readership.

The link to download the book: https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/russian-arms/id768715952?mt=8

Rosoboronexport, a subsidiary of the Rostec Corporation, is the sole state-owned arms trade company in the Russian Federation authorized to export the full range of military and dual-purpose products, technologies and services. Rosoboronexport is one of the leading world arms exporters to the international market. Its share in Russia's military exports exceeds 80 percent. Rosoboronexport cooperates with more than 700 enterprises and organizations in the Russian defence industrial complex. Russia maintains military technical cooperation with more than 70 countries around the world.

The Russian corporation Rostec was established in 2007 with the purpose to render assistance to industries in the development, production and export of high-technology military and civil-purpose products. It comprises 663 enterprises grouped into eight holding companies in the defence industrial complex, and five holding companies in civil industry branches. The Rostec subsidiaries are located in 60 regions of the Russian Federation, and export their products to more than 70 countries worldwide.23.12.2013

Those of you with Ipads and Iphones... any comments?

I can't wait for an Android version...

_________________“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

The article I posted above was from the http://www.rusarm.ru/ ... I thought it was legit...

_________________“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Results of the first two days at LIMA-2015, held at Langkawi island (Malaysia) exceeded all expectations. New interesting prospects have emerged. Deputy CEO of Rosoboronexport Sergey Goreslavski told Rossiyskaya Gazeta about intense negotiations with leaders of the defense ministries of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries.

According to him, here at LIMA-2015, new prospects and ideas have emerged right in front of their eyes. Meeting of leaders of ASEAN countries held before the LIMA-2015 show contributed to these results. Today the association includes ten countries. Besides political leaders, ministers of defense also held their own meetings. Many of them have visited LIMA-2015 show. Sergey Goreslavski said that ongoing matters as well as new interesting projects have been discussed. Matters related to strengthening military-technical cooperation, including transfer of cutting-edge technologies to the region’s leading defense enterprises, have been considered.

The parties confirmed their interest in Su-30MK and Su-35 fighters. Bilateral negotiations on deliveries of Su-35 fighters to one of the region’s countries were started. Positions of Russian helicopters in the region are being strengthened. A breakthrough occurred in promotion of Be-200 amphibious aircraft. Initially the manufacturer expected the demand for this aircraft in the region of a thousand islands to be high. But it wasn’t all that simple. And then it was a blessing in disguise. Be-200 proved its worth during search-and-rescue operations carried out after a Malaysian Airbus disappeared in December 2014 near Java Sea.

Having assessed the capabilities of Be-200 amphibious aircraft, many countries, first of all Indonesia, were ready to consider the possibility of purchasing the jets of the type. Intense negotiations are underway. Negotiations were also held at LIMA-2015. Indonesia is also considering the possibility of expanding its fleet of BMP-3F vehicles. Only this country, besides Russia, operates these unique amphibious vehicles. Indonesian marines love Russian infantry combat vehicles.

Ministers of Defense of almost all the countries of this region expressed readiness to visit a number of defense exhibitions to be held in Russia. There will be many of them this year. First of all, this refers to MAKS-2015 airshow. International Maritime Defense Show (IMDS-2015) will be held in St. Petersburg and Russian Arms Expo (RAE-2015) will be held in Nizhny Tagil.

Delegation of Rosoboronexport held negotiations with representatives of 20 countries during the first two days at LIMA-2015, including meetings with a number of Defense Ministers. This result may be considered as a record. And the most important thing is that this was not just talking. The parties paved the way for future contracts in the area of military-technical cooperation.

"Ten years ago some of our systems fell short by 10-15 years, but now I can say that our latest projects are practically comparable with our foreign competitors and colleagues. The hardware of the Mi-28 and Ka-52 is definitely as good as the Apache systems,"

"Ten years ago some of our systems fell short by 10-15 years, but now I can say that our latest projects are practically comparable with our foreign competitors and colleagues. The hardware of the Mi-28 and Ka-52 is definitely as good as the Apache systems,"

They are superior in many aspects. The Ka-52 is superior in all aspects of flight performance, while being superior in protection ballistical and electronical to any other AH, with co-axial eleminating around 25% of the causes of losing power to tail rotor or getting shot down due the damage to the tail rotor, bulletproof glass at the front, good cockpit armor even tho not on same level as Ka-50 or Mi-24/28 but still high and ejection seats. Standard MAWS and DIRCM system. More capable weapons are integrated not just common ATGM and some ATAM for selfdefense, but also Anti-Surface Missile Kh-25/31, Anti Ship Missile Kh-31/35/38 with ranges of 120-300km (practical it is lower due altitidue launche), R-73M, Cluster bombs, guided rockets Ugroza S-13/24/25, Vikhr-M which is dual purpose ATGM for ground and airtargets of slow jets, UAV and Helicopters.

Image Processing which gives it even in Thermal Vision better images of the targets which can be much easier to identify if people are armed or not unlike several times in Apache where Image Processing is abscent and Thermal sources are painted entirely only white or black which reduces the information of its target and fairly short range of target identification, while more modern FLIR's have high resolution with image processing, providing for the operator not only a better image of the surroundings to analyse the situation but aswell sustaining enough information to identify if armed guys are soldiers or probable insurgents, to avoid friendly fire which happened in the past several times.

There are many more points, but not really going to much more then that right now...have to deal with pc virus.

I have a few old paper catalogs and they generally have a whole section for air defence systems.

thanks for the link to that new part of the website...

_________________“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

The annual report of OAO "Kurgan Machine-Building Plant" for 2014 provides interesting details on foreign trade activities of the enterprise. For example, it is reported that in 2014, now signed a contract with Venezuela on secondment teams of specialists of the enterprise for a period of two years to implement service supplied equipment. Negotiations on a similar contract with Kuwait and Indonesia.

It is reported that the potential market for BMP-3 is Iraq, a number of countries in Africa and South America. Additional batch of BMP-3F Indonesia plans to purchase. In addition, potential partners of OAO "Kurgan" are Egypt in the middle of cooperation in the field of armored personnel carriers with weapons similar to arming the BTR-90A (upgraded BMP-2), India (regarding the modernization of the fleet of BMP-2 in different directions).

Spare parts market is characterized by stable demand in those countries where there are ready-made products in the first place, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Venezuela, Cyprus, South Korea, India.

At Least Four Countries Interested in Purchase of Russia's Modernized Il-76

At least four countries - Iran, Algeria, South Africa and Kazakhstan - had shown interest in buying the Il-76MD-90A (also known as Il-476), the general director of aircraft-maker Aviastar-SP said Friday.

ULYANOVSK (Sputnik) — Russia's Ilyushin Il-76-MD-90A heavy military transport aircraft has a promising exports potential and its first deliveries to foreign customers deliveries may begin as early as in 2017, the general director of aircraft-maker Aviastar-SP said Friday.

The Il-76MD-90A is a deeply modernized version of Russia's world-famous Il-76 aircraft, featuring a fully-digital flight control system, new avionics and PS-90A-76 engines with improved fuel efficiency systems.

"I think, that the Il-76-MD-90A has a big exports potential…I hope the first plane will be ready for export in 2017," Sergei Dementyev told RIA Novosti.

According to the general director, the aircraft-maker has plans to expand the production capacity of the modernized Il-76, which would allow the company to produce up to 18 aircraft a year. Under this financial model, Aviastar-SP would make up to 190 heavy transport planes by 2030, Dementyev said.

The Russian Defense Ministry ordered 39 upgraded Il-76 planes in 2012. Under the contract, Aviastar-SP will deliver three aircraft until the end of 2015.

Goreslavsky: Russian Federation will focus on the export of high-tech weapons

Those are a fifth-generation aircraft, high-speed helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, which, according to deputy head of "Rosoboronexport", "used in the world with great interest."

Nizhny Tagil, September 9 - RIA Novosti. Rosoboronexport intends in the coming years to promote the international arms trade in the first place, a new high-tech products, said Wednesday the deputy head Sergei Goreslavsky.

"The most careful attention should be given to the new high-tech products that will be in demand in the next five to ten years", - said Goreslavsky.

According to him, it is, in particular, the fifth-generation aircraft, high-speed helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles (including shock), the need to improve the armored vehicles.

Speaking about the results of the activities of Rosoboronexport in 2014 Goreslavsky noted that the aviation segment occupied 41% of the Navy - 13%, air defense - 15%, weapons, equipment for land forces - 27%, other equipment - 4%.

Among the developments of the Russian defense industry, which "are used in the world with great interest," Goreslavsky allocated Su-35, air defense missile-gun complex Pantsyr-S1, T-90MS and BTR-82.